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James Huey Jennings
14 Jan 1912 – 23 Aug 1955
| Birth | 14 Jan 1912 |
| Death | 23 Aug 1955 |
| Cemetery | Mills Cemetery Garland , Dallas County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Ed Brown on 09 Oct 2005 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10808843 |
Bio
Dallas (TX) Morning News, The, July 23, 1955, Sec 1, p. 1 (researched by Ruth Hasten Walsh) TRAIN HITS, BADLY HURTS, AILING EX-GI An ailing ex-infantryman was struck and critically hurt by a train Friday in Dallas when he apparently collapsed while trudging home along the tracks after a year in the Veterans Administration Hospital at Bonham. James Jennings, 43, of 4012 Birmingham, was in critical condition with skull fracture and undetermined brain injuries at Parkland Hospital. He was hit at 5:54 p.m. on the Texas & Pacific railway tracks a half mile east of James Street. C.A. Reese of Fort Worth, engineer of the twin-diesel streamliner, the Louisiana Eagle, said he rounded a curve leaving Dallas and saw a man lying beside the tracks with is head on one rail. The fast passenger train ground to an emergency stop. Police believe the "cowcatcher" hit Jennings' head and pushed it away from the wheels. Patrolmen M.P. Southall and E.N. Stansell found a bicycle and blanket roll near the unconscious man. They theorized he was traveling by bicycle and was "taking a short cut" between the Pleasant Grove area and South Dallas. A T&P tower man earlier had noticed a man pushing a bike along the tracks. Jennings' sister, Mrs. Oleta Martin of the Birmingham address, said Jennings is a World War II infantry veteran and had been in the Bonham hospital about a year. The first word she had that Jennings had been discharged from the hospital and injured was when a reporter called. Hospital records show he was discharged Thursday. The scene of the accident is only about a mile from his home. Dallas (TX) Morning News, The, August 24, 1955, Sec 1, p. 1 (researched by Ruth Hasten Walsh) DEATH TOLL IN TRAFFIC RISES THREE Death claimed two more victims of Dallas traffic accidents Tuesday, and a Dallas man died in a head-on collision....James Jennings, 43, of 4012 Birmingham, who was struck by a train on July 22 when he apparently collapsed while walking along the tracks neaqr James Street, also died in a Dallas hospital ....
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Texas-PVT, U.S. Army, World War Two.
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- Mattie Mae Jennings Vaughan 1892–1945
- Sarah Tobytha Jennings Roberts 1895–1981
- Edward Nash 1898–1940
- Isabelle "Tennie or Cleora" Jennings Turner 1918–1971
- Olin Austin Jennings 1920–1985
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